Where do you stand on the issue of fair trade? do you think fair trade actually perpetuates the cycle of poverty in developing nations? do you think the fair trade label simply makes unnecessary purchases seem acceptable? does it matter?

Fair trade can be observed from different perspectives, depending on the country. The world's strongest economies are flourishing because of that, they can produce much more, and have better quality and lower prices (because of the large quantity they produce), and with fair trade they out compete the companies from the smaller economies. If you look at it from a standing point of a smaller economy, then the poverty is big portion caused by the fair trade, because when a company or farmer produces something, he looks for a certain price for the product, and even though it is a low price, the products from the bigger economies will always have smaller price and pretty much same, if not, better quality, so they lose the battle in the market and thus they their profit, which means they become poorer, and lots of workers lose their jobs or see their wages drop.

The answer for your problem would be a. 7